Large-scale aggregation of humid heatwaves exacerbated by coastal oceanic warming

2026/03/24 by Fenying Cai, Dieter Gerten, Keer Zhang +3 · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Climate variability and models #Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations #Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

paper · doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01952-z

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Citations

• Wet-Bulb Temperature from Relative Humidity and Air Temperature
• An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat stress
• The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)
• The ERA5 global reanalysis
• Improvements of the Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1

Discussions

• Rising sea surface temperatures account for most of the increase in large humid heat waves across four decades of data. Follow @docketclimate for more. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-01952-z?utm [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]